Assessment

Workshop provides teachers with the time needed to monitor children's work and conduct informal and formal student assessments. Mrs. Stolfus monitors activities during Workshop. She:

• Circulates around the room noting students' work and discussing it with them.
• Calls students to the back of the room to conduct informal assessments of reading skills and strategies, check fluency, and have them read to her.

In addition, Mrs. Stolfus keeps informal notes throughout language arts class so that she can keep track of what each student may need during that day's Workshop.

However you choose to record students' performance and keep track of each student's areas of need, it is essential that monitoring take place regularly. Workshop time is most effective when small groups are fluid and geared to specific needs.

Open Court Reading provides a Teacher Observation Log in the Program Assessment book for each level. SRA Imagine It! provides Class Assessment Records as well as Student Assessment Records in the Lesson Assessment books. These are a few ways to monitor children as they work. You may be more comfortable creating your own method of tracking your informal observations.

The samples below present ways to informally track each child's work.


Click here to view the Monitor Log

Click here to view the Observation Log: Reading

Click here to view the Observation Log: Blending

Open Court Reading and SRA Imagine It! also include formal assessments that you may use to determine your children's progress in various skills.